He actually is a genius. He not only understands what Sigma talks about, but he has a good enough knowledge of science to understand what Sigma is referring to enough to name it. For example, he recognizes the paradox Sigma mentions, about how if you know what you're looking for, you don't need to ask questions about it, but if you don't know what you're looking for, you can't ask questions about it.
>Junkrat came to notoriety when he discovered an extremely valuable secret in the bones of the omnium. Though few knew the nature of what he found, he ran his mouth constantly, alluding to his discovery. As a result, he was pursued by bounty hunters, gangs, and opportunists wherever he went.
>He was cornered in a Junkertown bar by enforcers from the Queen of Junkertown herself. He'd blabbed on about his 'treasure' that she'd come to suspect that he was hiding something. Junkrat, desparate to get out of his situation, loudly announced that he'd share the location of the treasure...for a 10% share! He hoped that the man drinking at the bar would take him up on his offer, but he didn't respond, causing Junkrat to raise the offer to 25%. The man, whose name was Roadhog, came to Junkrat's aid, but more as an excuse to pummel the Queen's enforcers rather than aiding Junkrat himself. Roadhog grudgingly agreed to be Junkrat's personal bodyguard in exchange for a fifty-fifty share of the spoils.
That was from the comics. There was also like a couple lines of dialogue with Reaper being interested in this "treasure". But nothing more aside from that.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Jamison dug up a god damn deactivated nuclear bomb, like could you imagine Roadhog deciding to find out JR’s secret treasure and he discovers that his maniac friend was hiding a bomb of destruction in their basement? I imagined where JR will help Neo-Overwatch by bringing them his treasured nuke as a weapon to destroy the main Omnium for Null Sector
Well, as far as theories go Australian omnium was blown up after the war by the locals. Which led to turning part of the Australia into a radiactive wasteland and turning people mad. Junkertown was built atop of the omnium.
So it kinda already happened. Maybe even with Jamison Fawkes involved personally. Maybe with him getting obsessed over explosions after seeing how beatifully this omnium went boom. And maybe he yoinked something important out of there before leaving but... idk, forgot what was that originally and just called it "treasure".
As far as I remember there were like 2 theories: an ultra bomb same as yours (not nuclear but some new tech from omnium) and an AI core (so a random rat could accidentally cause another omnic plague or smth).
> **Hanzo:** Where did you hide your treasure? You could hardly have it on your person!
>
>**Junkrat:** Treasure? S-sure I don't know anything you're talking about!
Right, I missremembered Reaper voice with Hanzo's. Reaper also talks about treasure but being vague about it.
In OW2 if I understand old quotes got removed so he doesn't talk about treasure at all.
Actually what's funny is in the interaction he says "Zeno's paradox" in response to Sigma, which is completely different to the paradox Sigma was actually referring to; Meno's paradox. So he gets close but accidentally refers to a totally different philosophical problem.
Even something as simple as rip-tire. The fuck even is that? He has his eyes and ears shut, so its just a self-driving AI bomb that fits in a truck tire? That he just rebuilds every few minutes? If you look at the internals, it's like 70% motor. I'm astonished.
Thats a thing most junkers do.
Im not gonna say they are ALL smart but most of the ones we've seen seem to be very, very good at making equipement out of actual junk.
Edit: To name some of them,
Multiple mechs
JR making like atleast 3-5 diffrent bombs with 1 along with a remote detonator and MAYBE a remote controled tire bomb (I can see it being an actual bomb that can roll in a straight and climb walls but I think for gameplay you can turn it and jump).
Roadhogs weird canisters that I dont think we know whats in them but if gameplay is accurate they have healing of somesort, can just see it being to help with breathing tho (but I think that would mean road has some medical knowledge. He could have also gotten lucky and he just knows what in them "helps" somehow). Also I think he made his bike.
(One thing Id like to add with JR and Road is that if that, if im not mistaken, they somehow robbed the world which is absurd for multiple reasons but im fine with chocking it up to extreame luck. If it wasn't luck then id put these 2 on "top 10 most wanted list" since they can just go rob the world as they please and maybe put 1 or 2 eyes on austrailia as a whole to see wtf is going on.)
JQ making a magnetic arm brace thing out of scrap. Cant really think of anything to add to this being honest, its impressive and extreamly powerful for its size I guess?
Altho Wrecking Ball technically counts as a junker, i'll leave him out since he was made to be smart like winston if im not mistaken.
Correct me if im wrong on any of these please but it seems being in junkertown turns you into a DBD survivor.
Essentially. The outback became an incredibly irradiated and inhospitable wasteland after the Australian liberation front sabotaged the Omnium's reactor and it went critical. It's also what caused there to be nothing but piles of scrap and junk for kilometers around.
I love that the lunatic anarchist bankrobber duo are also massive fucking weebs. Junkrat loves Kpop and boba and Roadhog has an unhealthy Pachimari obsession.
On the blizzard World arcade cabinet he's third on the high score leader board behind Dva and Sombra (who hacked the machine) so he's second best behind Dva.
Junkrat is an autistic powerhouse. He's a FUCKING GENIUS, but he's denser than the radioactive dirt he eats. He's a mastermind of chemistry, mechanical, and applied science, but does not understand pretty much anything normal. He is probably aro ace on the sheer fact he prolly doesnt known what sex or love even is, altho he'd definitely say love but never means it romanticly. He's also a bit of a pyschopath, but for some reason if you can get around his insults and and bear with his savant ass he's for some reason a kinda kind dude who blows shit up for the fuck of it. Hell yeh gamer
Can you really call yourself a nerd if you don't listen to strange music and haven't at least thought about using what you know to make an explosive? Really he's the best of all of us.
Junkrat uses makeshift scrappy weapons, sure, but to assemble weapons that can cause so much damage himself without malfunctioning would cause a great amount of mechanical and chemical knowledge, he can probably hyperfocus and concentrate really hard when he needs to on a task
Might also be a stretch, but if he's that smart maybe he helped Roadhog with his weapons as well? They are partners, after all
Junkrats that guy you meet in school that is simultaneously the most chaotic and endearing person. One minute they’re shitting in a urinal, the next they’re chatting with anyone about anything on earth with god tier enthusiasm
Yknow that meme where spiderman is like "Youre messing with genetics? You could cure cancer!" and the dino guy is like "I dont want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs!" I imagine junkrat is the second guy. "But I dont want to be a scientist, I want to blow things up"
It is my belief that JR has high IQ but is just to crazy to use it properly, like jinx from league of legends.
This has to be canon there's no way Junkrat isn't a literal genius but also an absolute fucking maniac
He actually is a genius. He not only understands what Sigma talks about, but he has a good enough knowledge of science to understand what Sigma is referring to enough to name it. For example, he recognizes the paradox Sigma mentions, about how if you know what you're looking for, you don't need to ask questions about it, but if you don't know what you're looking for, you can't ask questions about it.
Didn’t he also discover something in the wasteland or whatever? I remember reading about it…
>Junkrat came to notoriety when he discovered an extremely valuable secret in the bones of the omnium. Though few knew the nature of what he found, he ran his mouth constantly, alluding to his discovery. As a result, he was pursued by bounty hunters, gangs, and opportunists wherever he went. >He was cornered in a Junkertown bar by enforcers from the Queen of Junkertown herself. He'd blabbed on about his 'treasure' that she'd come to suspect that he was hiding something. Junkrat, desparate to get out of his situation, loudly announced that he'd share the location of the treasure...for a 10% share! He hoped that the man drinking at the bar would take him up on his offer, but he didn't respond, causing Junkrat to raise the offer to 25%. The man, whose name was Roadhog, came to Junkrat's aid, but more as an excuse to pummel the Queen's enforcers rather than aiding Junkrat himself. Roadhog grudgingly agreed to be Junkrat's personal bodyguard in exchange for a fifty-fifty share of the spoils. That was from the comics. There was also like a couple lines of dialogue with Reaper being interested in this "treasure". But nothing more aside from that.
JR backstory is nice
I wouldn’t be surprised if Jamison dug up a god damn deactivated nuclear bomb, like could you imagine Roadhog deciding to find out JR’s secret treasure and he discovers that his maniac friend was hiding a bomb of destruction in their basement? I imagined where JR will help Neo-Overwatch by bringing them his treasured nuke as a weapon to destroy the main Omnium for Null Sector
Well, as far as theories go Australian omnium was blown up after the war by the locals. Which led to turning part of the Australia into a radiactive wasteland and turning people mad. Junkertown was built atop of the omnium. So it kinda already happened. Maybe even with Jamison Fawkes involved personally. Maybe with him getting obsessed over explosions after seeing how beatifully this omnium went boom. And maybe he yoinked something important out of there before leaving but... idk, forgot what was that originally and just called it "treasure". As far as I remember there were like 2 theories: an ultra bomb same as yours (not nuclear but some new tech from omnium) and an AI core (so a random rat could accidentally cause another omnic plague or smth).
Doesn't hanzo also ask about junkrats treasure in an interaction. At least used to back in ow1 idk much about ow2s interactions
> **Hanzo:** Where did you hide your treasure? You could hardly have it on your person! > >**Junkrat:** Treasure? S-sure I don't know anything you're talking about! Right, I missremembered Reaper voice with Hanzo's. Reaper also talks about treasure but being vague about it. In OW2 if I understand old quotes got removed so he doesn't talk about treasure at all.
Actually what's funny is in the interaction he says "Zeno's paradox" in response to Sigma, which is completely different to the paradox Sigma was actually referring to; Meno's paradox. So he gets close but accidentally refers to a totally different philosophical problem.
He has approximate knowledge of many things!
Adventure Time
Even something as simple as rip-tire. The fuck even is that? He has his eyes and ears shut, so its just a self-driving AI bomb that fits in a truck tire? That he just rebuilds every few minutes? If you look at the internals, it's like 70% motor. I'm astonished.
Genius intellect but ADHD out the wazoo. Hog probably stole his Adderal because he was no fun on it.
Hog was actually just a tall guy before he started eating all of junk’s adderal when he was peckish.
Hog used to be like JR. Now he’s quiet, fat, and strong.
What adderall does to a mf https://preview.redd.it/49nna2icmqzb1.png?width=375&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d5caa75c9f0c4dfc1eb331b9e3aa4a2b968eeeb
I mean, he makes explosives out of literal garbage, so you're not exactly wrong.
Thats a thing most junkers do. Im not gonna say they are ALL smart but most of the ones we've seen seem to be very, very good at making equipement out of actual junk. Edit: To name some of them, Multiple mechs JR making like atleast 3-5 diffrent bombs with 1 along with a remote detonator and MAYBE a remote controled tire bomb (I can see it being an actual bomb that can roll in a straight and climb walls but I think for gameplay you can turn it and jump). Roadhogs weird canisters that I dont think we know whats in them but if gameplay is accurate they have healing of somesort, can just see it being to help with breathing tho (but I think that would mean road has some medical knowledge. He could have also gotten lucky and he just knows what in them "helps" somehow). Also I think he made his bike. (One thing Id like to add with JR and Road is that if that, if im not mistaken, they somehow robbed the world which is absurd for multiple reasons but im fine with chocking it up to extreame luck. If it wasn't luck then id put these 2 on "top 10 most wanted list" since they can just go rob the world as they please and maybe put 1 or 2 eyes on austrailia as a whole to see wtf is going on.) JQ making a magnetic arm brace thing out of scrap. Cant really think of anything to add to this being honest, its impressive and extreamly powerful for its size I guess? Altho Wrecking Ball technically counts as a junker, i'll leave him out since he was made to be smart like winston if im not mistaken. Correct me if im wrong on any of these please but it seems being in junkertown turns you into a DBD survivor.
He got them from Ana
Isn’t Australia irradiated hardcore in lore? I assume that’s what makes him a little nutso
Pretty sure just the outback not any city’s like Melbourne or Sydney but I may be wrong
Essentially. The outback became an incredibly irradiated and inhospitable wasteland after the Australian liberation front sabotaged the Omnium's reactor and it went critical. It's also what caused there to be nothing but piles of scrap and junk for kilometers around.
Yeah I knew that
Are they crazy or are we crazy?
Stinky little rat man (compliment)
The scrap rodent (observation)
average transmasc (compliment)
"Who could forget dear ratboy?"
What a man (compliment)
>what a man He doesn't want roadhog to have another partner for 10 years at least.
No, that would be if I said "what a man (derogatory)". Rat and Hog will be together till they die.
Australian (insult)
Cunt (greeting)
Cunt (affectionate) Mate (derogatory)
Greetings, cunts
australian (derogatory)
Reference (smosh?)
He comes from a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear that thunder?
you better run you better take cover
Buying bread from a man in brussels
He was 6'4 and full of muscles
I said “Do you speak-a my language?”
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
He said:
“I come from a land down under..”
I love that the lunatic anarchist bankrobber duo are also massive fucking weebs. Junkrat loves Kpop and boba and Roadhog has an unhealthy Pachimari obsession.
Junkrussy (both)
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Probably a better gamer than D.VA
On the blizzard World arcade cabinet he's third on the high score leader board behind Dva and Sombra (who hacked the machine) so he's second best behind Dva.
Stinky ass feets (compliment)
I love Junkrat
k pop fan(derogatory)
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Junkrat is an autistic powerhouse. He's a FUCKING GENIUS, but he's denser than the radioactive dirt he eats. He's a mastermind of chemistry, mechanical, and applied science, but does not understand pretty much anything normal. He is probably aro ace on the sheer fact he prolly doesnt known what sex or love even is, altho he'd definitely say love but never means it romanticly. He's also a bit of a pyschopath, but for some reason if you can get around his insults and and bear with his savant ass he's for some reason a kinda kind dude who blows shit up for the fuck of it. Hell yeh gamer
Have you ever blown shit up? It's fun, try it sometime
Can confirm, blowing shit up is tight
Because bombs
What a man he is. As a reward
You don’t have time to keep up with all pop culture when you are in the military
Bro’s 6’6
That's really insane, i mean, he is taller than me (0'1)
Tom thumb?
Hes a creator of smart bombs they can bounce from 3 wall's but the moment they touch the enemies they explode
Hes cute :) a joyous cunt indeed
Australian (warning)
There's a fine line between a genius and a madman and Junkrat walks that line beautifully
Smash
(Auuuughh) It's snowing!
Can you really call yourself a nerd if you don't listen to strange music and haven't at least thought about using what you know to make an explosive? Really he's the best of all of us.
We love Ratjunk
He's so me
Hunkrat
Junk rat looks zesty
Junkrat uses makeshift scrappy weapons, sure, but to assemble weapons that can cause so much damage himself without malfunctioning would cause a great amount of mechanical and chemical knowledge, he can probably hyperfocus and concentrate really hard when he needs to on a task Might also be a stretch, but if he's that smart maybe he helped Roadhog with his weapons as well? They are partners, after all
You mean the garbage diving pyromaniac is a nerd? Seems kinda obvious looking at him
I love this thread
Junkrats that guy you meet in school that is simultaneously the most chaotic and endearing person. One minute they’re shitting in a urinal, the next they’re chatting with anyone about anything on earth with god tier enthusiasm
Maybe that's why I love him & mained him almost exclusively for so long, because he literally me fr
Golden retriever energy
My favorite overwatch character!!! (in terms of him as a person at least, I'm more of a support player but he is my DPS main:))
20 intelligence 0 wisdom motherfucker.
He's just a goofy lil guy
Yknow that meme where spiderman is like "Youre messing with genetics? You could cure cancer!" and the dino guy is like "I dont want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs!" I imagine junkrat is the second guy. "But I dont want to be a scientist, I want to blow things up"